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- 2421: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- ... Gary Snyder and Michael McClure led the crowd in chanting “OM” at the San Fransisco Be-In in 1967. In 1970 Ginsberg met with Tibetan guru Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Ginsberg soon accepted Trungpa as his personal guru. He and poet Anne Waldman joined to create a poetry school, “The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics”, at Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. In the early eighties Ginsberg joined the punk ... find other beat-poets to study, like Jack Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, and William S. Burroughs. I also did some research on the author Jane Kramer, just wanting to know what her credentials were on writing a book about Allen. It all stemmed from the whole credibility lecture you gave. I wanted to know if her view of Allen was maybe biased in some way. I guess she interview Allen a ...
- 2422: Marco Polo
- ... 69) as merchants. When they left (1271) Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco and two priests. Early Life Despite his enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice’s influence ... a lucky turn. In prison Marco met a man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom ...
- 2423: Johannes Brahms
- ... native city, Hamburg, an honor which was the most sacred to him. While all of this was happening, Brahms continued composing. His first ten years were extremely productive, as he wrote several works. He continued writing and conducting music until he died on April 3, 1897. Brahms was noted for his good nature, modesty, and humor. He had no personal enemies, and did not usually criticize the works of others. Brahms was never married; he lived the life of a simple middle classed citizen, and enjoyed fairly good health until the last years of his ...
- 2424: Robert Frost: Biography and Review
- ... felt the need to once again move. In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish himself quickly and would reap the awards of immediate success. In 1894 at the age of twenty Frost sold and published his first poem “My Butterfly:An Elegy” to The Independent, a ... of “North of Boston”. Sales from the books that Frost had published enabled him to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H. and send him on his way to a long and successful career in writing, teaching, and lecturing. Over the coming years he would receive a number of literary, academic, and public honors. He Received four prestige’s Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime. Frost lived his life doing what made him happy and that was writing poetry. Frost spent the last years of his life giving interviews and public speaking. On December 2nd, 1962 in Boston, Frost would give his last public speech. The following day Frost enter the hospital ...
- 2425: Hemingway’s Greatest Hits
- ... of Mr. Hemingway Does It Again says, “A Farewell to Arms...is Hemingway’s greatest works…it is glowing modern love story, a story of emotion that is so true it is like an intense personal experience”(Stephens 78). Walter R. Brooks the editor of Behind the Blurbs also says “…warmth, of actuality of closeness that only your own personal experiences have for you. It was so real to us that we felt, as we do ordinarily in our own life” (Stephens 81). Hemingway popularity does not stop in the United States, but explodes across ... Hemingway's books and from his own life that he sees the world as his enemy. Johnson says, "He will solve the problem of dealing with the world by taking refuge in individualism and isolated personal relationships and sensations" (Johnson 134-136). Henry drinks, smoke, party, travel and fall in love; Henry has an interesting characteristic because the way he behaves himself during the war. A Farewell to Arms is ...
- 2426: Thomas Alva Edison
- ... the electric lamp, stock printer, light bulb, phonograph, and literally hundreds of other useful inventions. Many different things in Edison’s life lead him to be such a great inventor including his family life, his personal choices, and numerous other factors. Many things during Thomas Edison’s family life guided him to a career as an inventor. When he was only seven and after only three months of schooling his mother ... physical science book. Shortly after that she helped him set up a small laboratory in the cellar of their house. His mother was a huge influence by her continuous support of his interests. Edison’s personal choices greatly lead him to opportunities for new inventions. He worked at a railroad station when he was only twelve years old. That is where he was lead to the invention of both the Stock ... that they would make a minor invention every week and a major one every six months. That is what happened, and sometimes it took even less time. All of those things combined, his family, his personal decisions, and all of his characteristics were part of making one of the greatest inventors ever. So many things in life have been made easier by Thomas Alva Edison’s hard work which brought ...
- 2427: Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Analytical Essay
- ... people. He also published a newspaper. He also used this as a vehicle to send information to people. He solicited out the bad things, “IN the conduct of my newspaper I carefully all libeling and personal abuse….” He tried to display just the good in society. But in the same right he mentions his newspaper as a stagecoach, saying, “in which anyone who would pay had the right to a place.” This shows his ideals on writing and the conveying f information to the people. In similarity his views also agreed with that of the enlightenment on politics and power. He believed that centralized power was not a good thing. He comments ...
- 2428: Abraham Lincoln
- ... spoons, tables and chairs, and comfortable bedding. But most of all she brought the love. Although Sarah was illiterate, she felt that it was important for the children to be educated. Lincoln became adept at writing and reading. And almost from the beginning he a became a leader. These years of Lincoln’s childhood were short. He grew up in tough economic times. Out of necessity Abraham was worked very hard ... up nose. In 1850s, Lincoln was the most sought-after attorneys in Illinois. He had the reputation as lawyer’s lawyer. He earned the respect of his colleagues. Yet Lincoln never used the law for personal gain. Lincoln was honest in real life as in legend. He was even know by his enemies a incorruptible. In 1858 Lincoln attempted to get a seat in the Senate. His opponent was Stephen Douglas ...
- 2429: Comparing Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein
- ... dropout, and grew up to develop anti-Jewish and anti-democratic thoughts. “Hitler spread his gospel of racial natures and contempt for democracy” (Dorpalen 1), and he organized meeting, and terrorized political foes with his personal bodyguard force known as the sturmabteilung (storm troopers). “He soon became a key figure in Bavarian politics, aided by high officials and businessmen” (Dorpalen 1). In November 1923, a time of political and economic chaos ... Munich against the postwar weimenrepub proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authorization regime. Without military support, however, the Putsch collapsed. As leader of the plot, Hitler was sentenced five years imprisonment and served nine months writing his book Mein Kampf (my struggle). “The failure of the uprising taught Hitler that the Nazi party must use legal means to assume power” (Dorpanlen 2). Released as a result of a general amnesty in ...
- 2430: Martin Luther
- ... transformed the surface of the earth, was Martin Luther. . . . He is one of the few great prophets of the Christian Church, and his greatness is overwhelming, even if it was limited by some of his personal traits and his later development. He is responsible for the fact that a purified Christianity, a Christianity of the Reformation, was able to establish itself equal terms with the Roman tradition" (Tillich 227). Tillich's ... religious rebellion in Germany, Martin Luther brought forth his principal theological doctrine about Christianity. According to Luther, mankind is justified by faith alone, and not by works. On the concept of this belief in a personal faith instead of the power of the Roman Catholic Church, Luther favored the abolition of many rituals and challenged the supreme authority of the pope. For York-9 this, Luther paid the ultimate penalty the ... may possibly be saved by God's Grace just as any other Christian may be so blessed. One of the most important differences between the Roman Church and Luther's conception of Christianity is the personal relationship between God and the Christian. In Catholicism, the Church is an intermediary between God and the individual. However, no intermediary is needed at all in Luther's theological approach. This is one of ...
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